VQ Communications:

Our goal today is the same as when we were founded 16 years ago: create the world’s best video conferencing management platform and enable our customers to get the most competitive advantage possible from their video conferencing

The original VQ Conference Manager became successful based on its support for the Codian MCU. It also supported the Polycom RMX.

Acano Manager was the name we gave to the version that supported the Acano (now Cisco Meeting Server) MCU/Call Bridge. We started that work late in 2013 and worked in close collaboration with the original creators. Acano Manager 1 provided initial support for the new CMS/Acano platform and Acano Manager 2 was a major re-development to fully exploit the CMS functionality.

Having been closely involved with this market-leading platform for so long, our experience and expertise of Cisco Meeting Server are virtually unrivalled.

Along the way, we’ve helped some of the early adopters grow their services from small to extremely large, where they now form key parts of their global, multi-billion-dollar-turnover businesses.

We’ve now come full circle and are renaming Acano Manager back to VQ Conference Manager.

Some of the world’s biggest users of video conferencing use our products every day

Our customers include well-known names in manufacturing, technology, financial services, healthcare and government. These organizations could use any supplier in the world. They repeatedly choose VQ Communications.

We have more than 150 systems in use at customers across the globe. Some are small and some very large. For many, video conferencing is a key corporate tool. We understand what that means and the pressures our customers are under. We’ve delivered repeatedly. They trust us.

We know the Cisco Meeting Server platform inside out

VQ Conference Manager was created through long-term collaboration with the original designers of the Cisco Meeting Server

Technology is at its best when hardware and software are designed to function tightly together. From 2013, we spent three years working closely with the Acano team that created what’s now Cisco Meeting Server. Our collaboration had one goal: to produce management software that exploited the full functionality of this video conferencing platform, delivering scalable, dependable, next-generation communication services.

We have continued to work closely with Cisco and are now, for example, participants in the Cisco Solution Program.

VQ Conference Manager is built by some of the best software engineers in the business

Video conferencing is complex, particularly when you’re delivering it at scale. Our team knows what it takes to overcome the challenges and provide a service your business can depend on.

We’re mostly software engineers, with extensive expertise in communications and video conferencing. Added to that, we have specialists in user interfaces and scalable architectures.

We like to push the boundaries of what technology can do, delivering ever-better results for our customers. This contributes to why our software hosts some of the systems it does and why we’ve displaced some of the suppliers we have. Our mission is to build great video conferencing management software and enable customers to deliver video conferencing services that, without our software, they wouldn’t be able to. Our software gives our customers competitive advantage. Our people contribute to leading open source projects, drawing on our culture of wanting to do things even better. For you as our customer, this innovation feeds back through our work on VQ Conference Manager.

Since we got involved in the fledgling video conferencing systems back in the early 2000s, our management software has always been at the cutting edge, both in terms of technology and system scale.

We’ve consistently hosted some of the biggest video conferencing services in the world. Back when we started, this involved tens of calls a day (or, on a bad day, a call). As our product matured and new technology and better connectivity disrupted the industry, this figure grew to tens, hundreds, thousands and then tens of thousands.

The infrastructure has changed, and the scale of the systems has grown beyond recognition. But through it all, VQ Communications has been there, enabling organizations to gain competitive advantage from the state-of-the-art in video conferencing.

Our roadmap of exciting new features and improvements will keep our customers ahead of the curve

The best products continually evolve to become even better. We’ve grown to be a leader in video conference management because of our constant desire to innovate and help our customers get more from their investments in video conferencing.

We listen to what customers say they need and work to enable it, and we’ve got an amazing roadmap lined up.